Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there

ISBN 10: 1893239497 / ISBN 13: 9781893239494

Published by Wind Publications, 2005

Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # R05B-05301

Synopsis:

This book deals with a subject of the gravest importance---the destruction of the Earth. Kentucky's mountains and the creatures who live there are being devastated by the coal-mining technique known as mountaintop removal.

About the Author:

Bobbie Ann Mason's first short stories were published in The New Yorker, and were then included in her first book of fiction, Shiloh & Other Stories (1982). The collection won the PEN/ Hemingway Award and was nominated for the American Book Award, the PEN/ Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and she received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her first novel, In Country (2001), is taught widely in classes and was made into a film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. Both Feather Crowns (1994) and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail (2001) won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs: A Family History (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Mason belongs to the Authors Guild, PEN, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky. Her most recent book, The Girl in the Blue Beret, was released in 2011.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Missing Mountains: We went to the ...
Publisher: Wind Publications
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good